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Development Guide
Applications for push content
Types of push applications
Push applications send web content or data to specific BlackBerry® device users. Users do not need to request or download the
data because the push application delivers the information as soon as it becomes available.
Application
browser push applications
client/server push applications
Types of push requests
The BlackBerry® Mobile Data System up to 1000 push requests, including both RIM and PAP push requests.
BlackBerry® device applications can send the following types of push requests:
Request
Supported tasks
RIM push
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Description
Browser push applications send content to a web browser on the BlackBerry device.
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The BlackBerry® Browser configuration supports BlackBerry MDS Services
push applications.
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The WAP Browser configuration supports WAP push applications.
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The Internet Browser configuration does not support push applications.
For more information about creating browser push applications, see the BlackBerry
Browser Developer Guide.
Client/server push applications consist of a custom client BlackBerry device
application on the BlackBerry device and a server-side application that pushes
content to the client BlackBerry device application. This approach provides more
control than browser push applications over the type of content that you can send
and how the BlackBerry device processes and displays the content.
sending a server-side push submission
specifying a reliability mode for the push
submission
Applications for push content
Push storage
RIM push requests are stored in RAM.
Undelivered RIM push requests might be lost if
the server restarts.
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